Adverse possession rights are not enforceable until you have proven them in court. The police are not interested in legal theories, and rightfully so.
As I understand it the dock is close to, or on, the property line. If you tie up a boat and it is in front of someone else's property then you are blocking their right of access. I would expect the police to tell you to move it. State ownership of the water has nothing to do with it.
You can't park you car in a way that blocks your neighbors driveway. It doesn't matter if you are parking on public land. And the police, if called, will not be interested in legal theories about who owns what. They will tell you not to block the driveway.
I know someone that has a 10 foot wide waterfront lot on Alton Bay. They have a dock but can only tie up to one side of it. If they tie up to the other side they are in front of their neighbors waterfront.
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